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Simplemenu Settings

Alexis Wilke — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 21:10:18 +0000

Menu Settings

Theme

Select a theme to display your Simplemenu items and dropdowns. The default is called original.

The themes reside in the module sub-folder named themes. Each theme is defined in a specific directory named after the theme. That name is what appears in the dropdown in the settings.

It is possible to add new themes as

Trace

Alexis Wilke — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 05:37:08 +0000

SWF Action

Action Category:

Miscellaneous

Action Details:

Action Identifier:

Action Structure:

<n.a.>

Action Length:

0 byte(s)

Action Stack:

pop 1 (s)

Action Operation:

s₁ := pop();
trace(s₁);

Action Flash Version:

Get URL2

Alexis Wilke — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 03:26:54 +0000

SWF Action

Action Category:

Movie

Action Details:

Action Identifier:

154

Action Structure:

unsigned char f_method;

Action Length:

1 byte(s)

Action Stack:

pop 2 (s)

Action Operation:

s₁ := pop();
s₂ := pop();
s₁.load(s₂, f_method);

Action Flash Version:

FileAttributes

Alexis Wilke — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:28:20 +0000

Tag Info

Tag Number:

Tag Type:

Format

Tag Flash Version:

Tag Structure:

struct swf_fileattributes {
	swf_tag			f_tag;		/* 69 */
	unsigned		f_reserved : 3;
	unsigned		f_has_metadata : 1;
	unsigned		f_allow_abc : 1;	/* since V9.0 */
	unsigned		f_suppress_cross_domain_caching : 1;	/* since V9.0 */
	unsigned		f_swf_relative_urls : 1;	/* since V9.0 */
	unsigned		f_use_network : 1;
	unsigned		f_reserved : 24;
};

The FileAttributes tag is new to version 8. It must be present in all movies version 8 and over. It must be the very first tag in the SWF movie. It should be unique (other instances will be ignored.)

The f_has_metadata flag shall be set to 1 whenever the movie includes a Metadata tag.

ScriptLimits

Alexis Wilke — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 07:14:27 +0000

Tag Info

Tag Number:

Tag Type:

Define

Tag Flash Version:

Tag Structure:

struct swf_scriptlimits {
	swf_tag			f_tag;		/* 65 */
	unsigned short		f_max_recursion_depth;
	unsigned short		f_timeout_seconds;
};

This tag is used to change the default limits of script execution.

The maximum recursion depth is 256 by default. Any value, except zero (0) is valid.

The f_timeout_seconds parameter specifies the number of seconds before the players opens a dialog box saying that the SWF animation is stuck.

DebugID

Alexis Wilke — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 06:59:04 +0000

Tag Info

Tag Number:

Tag Type:

Define

Tag Flash Version:

Tag Structure:

struct swf_debugid {
	swf_tag			f_tag;		/* 63 */
	unsigned char		f_uuid[<variable size>];
};

The DebugID tag is used to match a debug file (.swd) with a Flash animation (.swf). This is used by the Flash environment and is not required to create movies otherwise.

The f_uuid is a universally unique identifier. The size should be 128 bytes. It is otherwise defined by the size of the tag. All Unix and MS-Windows OSes offer a library to generate UUIDs. Although, you can very well just use a simple counter, it will work too.

ProductInfo

Alexis Wilke — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 09:14:53 +0000

Tag Info

Tag Number:

Tag Type:

Define

Tag Flash Version:

Tag Structure:

struct swf_metadata {
	swf_tag			f_tag;		/* 41 */
	long			f_product_id;
	long			f_edition;
	unsigned char		f_major_version;
	unsigned char		f_minor_version;
	long long		f_build_number;
	long long		f_compilation_date;
};

The ProductInfo tag stores information about the tool used to generate the Flash animation. This is ignored by flash players (unless it knows of problems in the generators...)

The f_product_id is expected to be a unique identifier for all the products which can possibly generate an SWF output file.

DefineSprite

Alexis Wilke — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:28:19 +0000

Tag Info

Tag Number:

Tag Type:

Define

Tag Flash Version:

Tag Structure:

struct swf_definesprite {
	swf_tag			f_tag;		/* 39 */
	unsigned short		f_sprite_id;
	unsigned short		f_frame_count;
	...			<data>;
	swf_tag			f_end;
};

A sprite is a set of SWF tags defining an animated object which can then be used as a simple object. A sprite cannot contain another sprite. hHowever, you can use PlaceObject2 to place a sprite in another.

The following are the tags accepted in a Sprite:

SWF Any Filter (swf_any_filter)

Alexis Wilke — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:32:03 +0000

SWF Structure Info

Tag Flash Version:

SWF Structure:

/* the filter type */
struct swf_filter_type {
	unsigned char	f_type;
};

struct swf_filter_glow {
	swf_filter_type	f_type;		/* 0, 2, 3, 4 or 7 */
	if(f_type == GradientGlow || f_type == GradientBevel) {
		unsigned char		f_count;
	}
	else {
		f_count = 1;
	}
	swf_rgba		f_rgba[f_count];
	if(f_type == Bevel) {
		swf_rgba		f_highlight_rgba[f_count];
	}
	if(f_type == GradientGlow || f_type == GradientBevel) {
		unsigned char		f_position[f_count];
	}
	signed long fixed	f_blur_horizontal;
	signed long fixed	f_blur_vertical;
	if(f_type != Glow) {
		signed long fixed	f_radian_angle;
		signed long fixed	f_distance;
	}
	signed short fixed	f_strength;
	unsigned		f_inner_shadow : 1;
	unsigned		f_knock_out : 1;
	unsigned		f_composite_source : 1;
	if(f_type == Bevel) {
		unsigned		f_on_top : 1;
	}
	else {
		unsigned		f_reserved : 1;
	}
	if(f_type == GradientGlow || f_type == GradientBevel) {
		unsigned		f_passes : 4;
	}
	else {
		unsigned		f_reserved : 4;
	}
};

struct swf_filter_blur {
	swf_filter_type		f_type;	/* 1 */
	unsigned long fixed	f_blur_horizontal;
	unsigned long fixed	f_blur_vertical;
	unsigned		f_passes : 5;
	unsigned		f_reserved : 3;
};

struct swf_filter_convolution {
	swf_filter_type	f_type;		/* 5 */
	unsigned char	f_columns;
	unsigned char	f_rows;
	long float	f_divisor;
	long float	f_bias;
	long float	f_weights[f_columns × f_rows];
	swf_rgba	f_default_color;
	unsigned	f_reserved : 6;
	unsigned	f_clamp : 1;
	unsigned	f_preserve_alpha : 1;
};

struct swf_filter_colormatrix {
	swf_filter_type	f_type;		/* 6 */
	long float	f_matrix[20];
};

struct swf_any_filter {
	swf_filter_type			f_fitler_type;
	swf_filter_blur			f_filter_blur;
	swf_filter_colormatrix		f_filter_colormatrix;
	swf_filter_convolution		f_filter_convolution;
	swf_filter_glow			f_filter_glow;
};

A filter defines how to transform the objects it is attached to. The first byte is the filter type. The data following depend on the type. Because each filter is much different, they are defined in separate structures. You can attach a filter to an object using an ActionScript or the PlaceObject3 tag.

The following describes the different filters available since version 8.

SyncFrame

Alexis Wilke — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:23:26 +0000

Tag Info

Tag Number:

Tag Type:

Display

Tag Flash Version:

Tag Structure:

Unknown

Apparently, Macromedia thought that synchronizing their animation with, probably, the VLB would be a good idea. Yet they dropped it and never released that out. It is probably not useful for animations (visual) to be properly synchronize when there is not audio. If you do have audio, you should synchronize the animation to the audio and drop visual frames as required to keep up with the audio.